identified aerial phenomenon (12. 185)

Trying to take a photo of the full Moon the other night that didn’t turn out so well (Moon says “don’t blame me for not looking good in pictures, I’m just too brilliant”), I zoomed in later and saw that I had accidentally captured a passing constellation of Starlink satellites* seen to the right of the lunar body (the other mysterious objects, those green globs at the bottom are the bokeh’d Christmas lights on the neighbours’ house through the hedges). 

Had I not known about the the low orbiting communications satellites and the flare and related effects that they can produce, I would have mistaken them for UFOs and can completely empathise with those who get a little hysterical witnessing the like. *Correction—I think those might be the planets starting to line up, check back on Tuesday.